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...Iran's Premier Ghavam into refusing Russian demands for immediate action on the pact. An explosion of threats and ultimatums from Moscow was countered with the warning that twenty-five million dollars worth of American military credits might be turned down if the treaty went through. Iran became the pawn in a rousing game of power politics that showed two nations battling for world leadership. The struggle is as dangerous as it is anachronistic...
...industry as essential as this should not be used as a pawn in the establishment of Reciprocal Trade Agreements. While the program may sound wonderful in theory, it is not "reciprocal" in practice. How can there be reciprocity, when we are dealing largely with countries whose economies are managed, whose currency is pegged, and who are, furthermore, largely bankrupt...
...China as an international pawn to thwart Russian expanision, and wellmeant but inept attempts to solve China's problems with inapplicable U. S. formulas were cited as two main defeate in U. S. Far Eastern policy at the fourth Law School Forum last night...
Ever since the U.S. Communist Party had expelled him, it had looked as though he were just another pawn sacrificed in one of the Kremlin's policy plays. But now, Browder looked less like a pawn, more like a knight on Communism's big board...
...brutality, they sensed a capacity for the terrorism with which a revolutionary minority must always exert its rule over an overwhelming majority. In his intellectual aridity, they sensed an embodiment of that bleakness inseparable from a philosophy which makes man, even for his ultimate greater glory, the pawn of purely materialist forces...